The Speech Prosody SIG Lecture Series, a new initiative of the Speech Prosody SIG Officers, aims to (1) offer to the Speech Prosody community a well-covered view of themes and methods in speech prosody; (2) introduce new perspectives and foster debate; (3) stimulate collaborations among speech prosody researchers, including by making known to the community the existence of public repositories with data, corpora, joint projects asking for collaboration and other resources that can be freely shared. Lectures will be presented live in YouTube, with Q&A, handled through the YouTube’s chat feature.
Tackling prosodic phenomena at their roots
Professor Yi Xu, University College London.
Abstract: Rather than being a coherent whole, speech prosody consists of highly diverse phenomena that are best understood in terms of their communicative functions, together with specific mechanisms of articulatory encoding and perceptual decoding. The understanding of these root causes is therefore key to further advances in prosody research.
October 25, 2023 观看讲座视频